Example sentences of "as [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EPR had won the battle on their own terms but , like Bohr in his very different way , they had defined the rules so as to assure themselves of victory . |
| 2 | Third , if the patient breathes on his own so as to sustain himself successfully , then the ventilator is not needed and need not be switched on again . |
| 3 | It is this latter Committee 's task to lay before Parliament for its approval , after consultation with the Legislative Committee of the Assembly , such Measures as commend themselves . |
| 4 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |
| 5 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 6 | He yearned to consult his Tarot so as to connect himself however tenuously with the spirit of the Emperor . |
| 7 | What we mean by this is that when the pupils feel themselves put down , treated without ‘ seriousness ’ , they behave in such a way as to restore themselves to the status of mature beings . |
| 8 | No better example can be given than by citing the careers of Tamara Karsavina and Margot Fonteyn , both of whom worked with many different choreographers as well as submitting themselves to the severely classical discipline of the older Petipa repertoire . |
| 9 | It was as much a speech to slam eleven years of Conservative government as to promote himself as a statesman , capable of assuming the role of Prime Minister . |
| 10 | On the other hand , those like Mrs Gaskell and Dickens , who represent the poor as helping themselves , are liable to diffuse the intensity of the impression they wish to create . |
| 11 | It was on the basis of this document that the Roman Church asserted its prerogative to create kings , as well as to establish itself as a temporal authority . |
| 12 | Labour needs to regain its working class support as well as modernising itself |
| 13 | Meanwhile , both Franca and Alison had , after initial suspicion , adopted Irina , at least as far as amusing themselves by helping her to spend money on having her hair done and buying clothes . |
| 14 | The manager was advised to start by walking his zone so as to familiarize himself with it , and then ‘ scouts ’ would be sent out to call at homes whilst ‘ reliable boys ’ could be hired to ‘ politely deliver heralds ’ . |
| 15 | Here the street-walkers were not too sophisticated : outside her tenement a harlot stood , skirts raised , over a chafing dish of coals on which she had sprinkled brimstone and perfume so as to fumigate herself . |
| 16 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 17 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 18 | Never again would he be so stupid as to embroil himself in something like this . |
| 19 | I am sure that he will wish to join me in congratulating the governors , the headmaster and the parents involved in the school on their wisdom in applying for grant-maintained status so as to free themselves from the bureaucracy and interference of the local education authority . |
| 20 | As Margaret Anne Doody puts it : ‘ Leapor plays with the fascination of female ugliness in such a manner as to free herself from conventional claims of feminine proprieties . |
| 21 | It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I think I 'll have one , ’ said Brian , and Scarlet saw that things were even worse than they seemed , for now his tone was artificial : he was making conversation about something so trivial as pouring himself a drink . |
| 23 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
| 24 | What the , President and colleagues as well as presenting himself as a great European leader , a demand which is not seen as be particularly , although at the moment , John Major and his government have sought to present themselves as green . |
| 25 | ‘ Legal theory ’ is sometimes taken as being synonymous with ‘ jurisprudence ’ and is sometimes regarded as concerning itself with a narrower range of questions — in particular , What is the nature of law ? |
| 26 | Then the courts interpret such phrases so as to give themselves more or less control as they wish . |
| 27 | When my brother looked through his new spectacles into the Cinemascope format of the wide mirror I saw that he gently let his lower jaw fall a little so as to give himself more of the thin-faced appearance of Hank R Marvin in Summer Holiday . |
| 28 | He increased the magnetism of his boots to maximum so as to draw himself down . |
| 29 | That 's to take care of my having to hand a few bribes out as well as supporting myself . |
| 30 | Another typical submissive pattern is for people to cling to their hard luck stories , as well as to put themselves down . |